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...fearsome reputation, is more like Nebraska and the Dakotas than the Sahara). An alternate rail line, several hundred miles inside the Russian border, is far from completion. Itagaki's invaders, attacking the Trans-Siberian, will also be assaulting Russian Asia's key cities: Chita, a junction point on the Trans-Siberian; Khabarovsk, a new factory center which is also the headquarters of General Stern's armies; Blagoveshchensk, now almost within shell range of the Japanese in extreme northern Manchukuo; and, well beyond the Far Eastern border, the new steel & oil city of Komsomolsk, pride of the young...
...mushroom metropolis of 200,000. The Cheliabinsk Tractor Plant, the world's biggest, now turns out tanks and armored cars. Twenty years ago Ekaterinburg, where the last Tsar and his family were shot in a cellar, was a city of 25,000. Now renamed Sverdlovsk, it is the junction of seven railroad lines, has a population...
Fateful Effects. Never before had North Africa seemed so near and so vital. From Cairo to Washington and London went a momentous memorandum, listing the danger to Britain's last hold on the Mediterranean: the fateful effects if Germany, by finally winning North Africa, achieves a junction with the Japanese and cuts the chief supply line from the U.S. to Russia and the U.S. Army's air-ferry lines to India and China. It recited the enormous value of the Allies' North African bases, within air reach of the Middle East, Russia and southern Europe (where...
...column which seized Lashio is coming up the Burma Road to China, with the possibility that it may swing in toward Bhamo in an attempt to sever all our communications with China. Another column is about to seize Mandalay. A third force has already taken Monywa and the Junction of the Irrawaddy and Chindwin Rivers, threatening to outflank...
...moved north toward the oilfields and the mountain passes at the junction of the India-Burma-China border, he took with him a rabble of Burmese traitors, looters from the slums of Rangoon, red-brown Karen tribesmen who have brandished their sharp heavy dahs at the British, off & on, for more than a half-century. Between thrusts, the Jap rested in the zeyats which Burmese Buddhists build for the ease of travelers and of their own souls in the next world...